Michael Stravato for The New York Times
Priscilla Slade, the former president of Texas Southern University, arriving for the start of her trial Friday in Houston.
HOUSTON, Aug. 24 — With Texas Southern University struggling to survive as one of the nation’s largest historically black colleges, the former president once hailed as its savior faced a state jury here Friday, charged with misspending hundreds of thousands of dollars on personal luxuries.
